Price hikes of over 2x widely expected under Broadcom’s VMware, survey finds

300 director-level IT workers making VMware decisions were questioned.

  • @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    ROBO licenses are gone. We saw licensing costs for servers at those sites go up 5x.

    We have a few years left on our main clusters licensing, but we are already investigating moving off vmware because we expect more of the same.

    • slazer2au
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      25 months ago

      Where are you jumping to? I hear people going Hyper-V and nutanix(?)

      • Yer Ma
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        35 months ago

        Local gov, we were directed to go to Hyper-V… We’ll see how it goes

        • @IHawkMike
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          15 months ago

          Hyper-V is decent. It’s VMM that is atrocious. Hopefully you don’t have Citrix with MCS catalogs.

          • @Evotech
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            05 months ago

            Hyperv has shit automation support and doesn’t provide native apis to work with. You need vmm or some third layer to talk to. That’s where the shit starts

            • @[email protected]
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              15 months ago

              I’m a net admin so I don’t deal much on hypervisors but I’m a bit surprised.

              Does it actually have shit automation support, or do you just not like the APIs?

              • @Evotech
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                15 months ago

                It does not provide apis like that without third party softeare

        • slazer2au
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          15 months ago

          Bit late, the path is already there with Azure Arc

          • Possibly linux
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            25 months ago

            The problem is what happens if they pull a VMware. They could just bump up licensing costs so that you end up spending the same as you would to be in the cloud

            • slazer2au
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              15 months ago

              MS is currently going through some legal battles in the EU about unfair pricing so it will be interesting how that turns out.